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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Christmas 2012 -Our Home Tour

Welcome to a Christmas tour of our home in cold but currently not snowy Ontario, Canada.

In separate posts that I am linking to I have shared each of these areas of our home in greater detail and with more photos. (Warning- lots of photos!) The tour starts on the front porch of our home with a painted and thrifted bench, lots of fresh greenery and pinecones, a chippy paned window and ice skates. It is quite a change from last year and I am enjoying it very much.

Another chippy window and our mirror is the backdrop to a bundle of greens, a large mercury glass ball and a mirrored star ornament.

Our living room is decorated year round in mostly neutrals with the occasional pop of blues. Our temporary coffee table holds wavy glass lanterns and two galvanized buckets filled with silver glass balls and greenery.

The vignette on the dresser includes more mercury glass balls, pinecones, ironstone, more silver balls in different sized, greenery, a footed mercury glass bowl and votive holders and some religious pieces.

I just love the mix of a bit of sparkle and rustic and natural pieces..

Our living room tree is decorated with rusty stars, large sleigh bells, small jingle bells in silver and brown, large and small balls in shades of whites and silver, crocheted bells and snowflakes and some manilla glittered deer tags I made. The tree is wrapped with burlap ribbon, linen ribbon and lots of white lights.

The vintage wood skis are one of my favourite finds and now I am searching for a pair of affordable snow shoes. I don't think hubby would go for the wood canoe hanging from the ceiling ala Roots stores though :)

My style is rustic and farmhouse so I decided to keep the centerpiece much simpler than last year with a white cotton moire runner I sewed, a large white platter filled with white candles wrapped in burlap and a few silver glass balls, and various new and vintage mason jars with faux snow and tealights or faux bottle brush trees.

I can guarantee that with a large extended family, teen boys and a chocolate Lab that our family room does not always look like this. I do like to wash the slipcovers for the holidays and whip off the sheets covering the sofa for the pictures though ;)

Our main family tree is decorated with a black and red buffalo check ribbon, red wood berries, and tons and tons of country styled, hand stitched, and collected family ornaments. All the way around.

Our ornaments are a very mixed bunch but really reflect our Canadian pastimes, family milestones and vacations, and our love of farm animals and country living.

Moving from our family room into our kitchen is the vignette of my galvanized container collection on top of the office armoire.

The greenery, pinecones and stars on our porch, in our living room and dining room are repeated in this spot.

The kitchen has more of my white and ironstone collection with added pops of blue and red.

A pine hall table I just picked up and plan to paint and an old printers drawer inspired this quick little arrangement in the upstairs hall. I would still like to do some fluffing in the basement TV room and our basement guest bedroom but I am not stressing about it. (Edited to add: I took some quick photos of our basement with guests in residence and I am adding them here.)

Thanks so much for stopping by our Christmas home tour! I wish you and your families a Merry Christmas.

I too am a huge fan of some rustic with a little glitzy! and I love all your greenery and pinecones with your white dinnerware! SO happy to have you following along, I always enjoy your posts, and feel we have a similar taste in a lot of things! Happy Holidays! ~Bre

Everything is so pretty I don't know where to start. Love the skis and buckets full of ornaments in the living room. the kitchen is my favorite, love the blue jars filled with vintage Christmas bulb. All so wonderful:)

Everything looks ready for the festive season. Each time I see your printers drawer I love it more, and in my mind I'm moving some furniture around so it will fit in. I can visualize all sorts of sewing notions in the little sections. I'll give it a good home if you ever want to part with it. :) Have a great day. I've been walking around outside enjoying the sunshine and temperatures of around 6 Celsius, and I'm not thinking about the snow they said was coming later this weekend.

Your home is just lovely decorated for the holidays! I especially love the touches of greenery and the pinecones tucked into your white ironstone in the beautiful cabinet. Thanks for sharing your talents and Happy Holidays! :)

Your home looks just beautiful, Elizabeth! I love all your vignettes. I'm heading back up to the attic today since the rosemary tree I had bought for the counter is totally dried up. I need to get some ornaments down to fill the tureen it was in now. Love that simple look and I see you've used it, too.

Your house looks so beautiful decorated for Christmas! You have such an eye for adding special little details everywhere. I especially love the dresser vignette and your china cabinet with all the white ironstone and greenery!

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